MP3 Paul Zak tells us about oxytocin, a chemical messenger that accounts for why some people are generous, trustworthy, and faithful and others aren’t. His book The Moral Molecule: The Source of Love and Prosperity …
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Here is a distinctly American Modern — a culture born of new technology and echoing out of the mind of a child growing up in a world newly transformed. The word modern infused that world. …
Since the ancient Egyptians, humans have been obsessed with the idea of transforming their bodies and living forever. Now science is circling ever closer to that goal. Are we “playing God?” Introducing a “Brave New …
Time calls Bruce Sterling one of America’s best-known science fiction writers and perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre.” Tomorrow Now is, as Sterling wryly describes it, “an ambitious, …
Twin Tracks is a landmark book of real-world stories that investigates the nature of change and divines as never before the unlikely origins of many aspects of contemporary life. In each of the work’s twenty-five …
In this groundbreaking and incisive exploration, acclaimed social critic Curtis White describes an all-encompassing and little-noticed force taking over our culture and our lives. White calls this force the Middle Mind — the current failure …
The Delphic Boat shows us that life is both a complicated piece of chemical machinery that decodes genomes and a process that builds this machinery. The laws of physics or chemistry can only predict so …
In this fascinating study of innovation, engineer and social scientist Andrew Hargadon argues that our romantic notions about innovation as invention are actually undermining our ability to pursue breakthrough innovations. Based on ten years of …
Are you ever going to see the value promised from your company’s project portfolio? The question is all too familiar. The concern is real and legitimate. Technology and other project initiatives have grown faster than …
Today, when technology moves forward in seemingly effortless leaps, it is easy to become a little jaded, or as author Merritt Ierley writes, “the more the wonders, the less wondrous they seem to be.” It …
Today, many scholars show more interest in unscientific attempts to empathize with ancient peoples than in obtaining valid knowledge about the past. Archaeologists have become failed ethnographers, forever regretting the demise of the people they …
Executives love the idea of vision. And studies have proven the link between a strong vision and sustained growth. Yet when it comes to taking vision from paper to reality, most companies fail miserably. Organizational …
In this shrewd and eloquent dissection of American politics and policies, Will Hutton offers powerful new insight into our new — and troubling — mores. Great societies, this book holds, are marked by essential core …
Since 1977, Mitchell and Coles have assisted hundreds of major companies to develop competitive advantages. In 1992, they launched a landmark tracking study of company and CEO best practices in achieving sustained top performance. Their …
All business involves approximation and risk. True success comes only when you minimize those risks by formulating a sound, workable strategy. In Mastering Strategy, Jeffrey Rigsby and Guy Greco undertake an exhaustive examination of today’s …
All brands want to be loved. Creating that positive emotional connection between product and audience is brand management’s holy grail. But not all brands achieve this goal. And perhaps the ones that most want to …
Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. Far less well-known is a much greater catastrophe …
As correspondent for Newsweek, Michael Hirsh has traveled to every continent, reporting on American foreign policy. Now he draws on his experience to offer an original explanation of America’s role in the world and the …
The bursting of the stock market bubble, corporate scandals, and lingering recession have dashed the hope that the 1990s were the start of a new era of unlimited prosperity. But as far-fetched as this possibility …
In this age of instant communication and biotechnology, on this ever-smaller planet, what kinds of problems have we created for ourselves? How do we tackle them in a world where the accustomed methods used by …
All too rarely we encounter a work that literally opens up whole new worlds for us through the breadth of its learning, the beauty and creative playfulness of its style, and, above all, its ability …
The Rise of the Creative Class gives us a provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today — and where we might be headed. In a book that weaves storytelling …
Bhaskar Chakravorti of Monitor Group explains the vagaries of market adoption by highlighting a paradox of networked markets: While everyone loves a great idea, they will embrace it only if they believe that others will …
The world we live in today is more volatile than ever. Across the globe, free societies face unprecedented threats to their security, and financial markets are fluctuating wildly. Technological innovations are speeding communications and revolutionizing …
Nature’s Magic presents a bold new vision of the evolutionary process — from the Big Bang to the 21st century. Synergy of various kinds is not only a ubiquitous aspect of the natural world but …
From Robocop to the Terminator to Eve 8, no image better captures our deepest fears about technology than the cyborg, the person who is both flesh and metal, brain and electronics. But philosopher and cognitive …
Antonio Damasio, widely recognized as one of the world’s leading neuroscientists, has long been investigating the neurobiological foundations of human life. In Descartes’ Error he explored the importance of emotion in rational behavior, and in …
The goal of strategy is to choose the course of action that ensures success and survival. In a world of rapidly accelerating change, today's strategy quickly becomes obsolete. We must be ever more aware of the future we are planning for, since that future will quickly be upon us. Strategic foresight has a serious intent: to improve our understanding of the range of possible futures, and to use that understanding to inform action.
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